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"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" is a 1985 song by American singer and actress Tina Turner. It appeared in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which starred Turner and Mel Gibson, and is written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle. On the heels of Turner's multiplatinum album Private Dancer, the song was released as a 7" single, an extended version was released as a 12" single and on the film's soundtrack album. In the UK, a shaped picture disc was also released. The power ballad[1] received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1986. As songwriters, Lyle and Britten received the 1985 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[2]

"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
Single by Tina Turner
from the album Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
ReleasedJuly 8, 1985UK
RecordedDecember 1984
GenreNew wave, pop rock
Length6:05
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Terry Britten
Graham Lyle
Producer(s)Terry Britten
Tina Turner singles chronology
"Show Some Respect"
(1985)		 "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
(1985)		 "One of the Living"
(1985)

Recording


Turner was backed by a choral group from King's House School in Richmond, London. One of the choir members who appeared on the record, Lawrence Dallaglio, became famous as a rugby union star and captain of the England national team.[3]


Chart performance


"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" became one of Tina Turner's biggest worldwide hit singles. The single peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, behind only "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" by John Parr. It reached number three in the UK and reached number one in Canada, Australia, West Germany, Poland, Spain and Switzerland.


Music video


The accompanying music video for "We Don't Need Another Hero" features Turner dressed in her Aunty Entity costume from the film, a heavy chain mail gown. As several spotlights shine on her, she proceeds to sing atop a platform while various scenes from the movie are interspersed. In the last portion of the video, Turner is accompanied by a children's choir and Tim Cappello, her tour saxophonist, percussionist and keyboardist at the time. The music video received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Female Video.


Versions and remixes



Charts



Certifications


Certifications for We Don't Need Another Hero
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[40] Gold 50,000^
Germany (BVMI)[41] Gold 500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[42] Silver 250,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.


Cover versions


In 2004, Canadian singer Jane Child recorded a cover of the song, titling it "Beyond Thunderdome (We Don't Need Another Hero)" for the album What's Love? A Tribute to Tina Turner.[43]

In 2007, Finnish supergroup Northern Kings covered the song on their debut album Reborn.[44]

In March 2016, Seal and Jencarlos Canela performed a cover of the song during the Fox television special The Passion. It was sung in the story where Pontius Pilate (Seal) is torn at sentencing Jesus (Jencarlos) to death; the lyrics were amended to remove the reference to Thunderdome, which was replaced with "the love we know".[45]


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На других языках

[de] We Don’t Need Another Hero

We Don’t Need Another Hero (dt. „Wir brauchen keinen weiteren Helden“) ist der von Graham Lyle und Terry Britten geschriebene Titelsong des Films Mad Max – Jenseits der Donnerkuppel. Gesungen wurde die Rockballade von Tina Turner.
- [en] We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)

[es] We Don't Need Another Hero

«We Don’t Need Another Hero» (‘no necesitamos otro héroe’) es una canción compuesta por Graham Lyle y Terry Britten e interpretada por la cantante estadounidense Tina Turner (1939-). Fue también la canción principal de la película Mad Max beyond thunderdome (de 1985). Fue lanzada en la época de mayor reconocimiento de la cantante, poco después de la aparición de su canción más conocida, «Private dancer» (1984).

[ru] We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)

«We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)» (с англ. — «Нам не нужен еще один герой (Купол грома)») — сингл американской рок-певицы Тины Тёрнер, вышедший 8 июля 1985 года в Великобритании и вошедший в саундтрек Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome кинофильма «Безумный Макс 3: Под куполом грома». Вслед за мультиплатиновым альбомом Private Dancer (1984), песня была выпущена как 7-дюймовый виниловый сингл, расширенная версия издана как 12-дюймовый сингл.


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